UHB End Point Management Solution - Market Engagement

2. Description of procurement

The purpose of this Prior Information Notice is Trust intends to enable UHB to gain engage a better understanding of what sort of providers service provider for implementing and how many exist in the market, and improve the confidentiality, integrity, availability and authenticity of its systems and infrastructure. Suppliers who are able to offer deploying a solution relevant to this requirement are invited to express an interest and respond to a cost effective market engagement questionnaire. Further details on how leading End Point Management Solution across its infrastructure and software to do this are contained automate operations from discovery to management and resolve vulnerabilities that could be exploited. The software should be licence based End Point Management Solution that has an integrated Patch Management and Deployment, both Vulnerability and Patch Management must be provided through one single solution. The software solution should be capable of identifying, detecting, and responding to various types of cyber threats, including but not limited to malware, viruses, phishing attacks, and other vulnerabilities. It should also provide continuous monitoring and real-time threat detection to prevent any unauthorised access to our network. The software should be compatible with our existing IT infrastructure, including the operating systems, databases, and applications used within our organisation. It should also be scalable and flexible enough to accommodate future upgrades and changes to our IT environment. The software should provide comprehensive reports on security risks and provide actionable insights to help our IT security team make informed decisions to protect our organisation's digital assets. Key attributes that the solution should cover but not limited to: (included within the additional information section of this notice. requirements & briefing note document). Potential bidders are asked to note that the route to market has not yet been decided and therefore the procurement timetable has not been finalised. The Authority will make a final decision on the most appropriate route market following this engagement exercise. This may be a direct award via an existing public sector framework agreement or alternatively, the Authority may decide to run a competitive process via a mini-competition under a framework or an openly advertised procedure. If the latter, the publication of the ITT will include the publication of a Contract Notice, a Contracts Finder notice, and the ITT documents will be published on the Authority' Atamis e-tendering system.